You have just made your way through the dungeon, perhaps even The Very Definitely Final Dungeon itself, and are ready to confront the Boss. And there he is, sitting in his ominous throne. Any moment now, he is going to rise up and the fight will begin.

This can be used to demonstrate how powerful the boss is: if he does not need to get up to fight, imagine what he could do if he did get up...
Most of the time, this is only one phase of the battle..
Sometimes this sets up a Zero-Effort Boss where you just walk to them and kill them, mission complete. Sometimes it's a Trick Boss where it looks like it'd be a Zero-Effort Boss, but then something happens and the real, proper fight starts. Sometimes the boss summons flunkies or attack with magic or other ranged attacks. The boss will probably rise from his throne when he realizes he cannot defeat whoever he's facing if he doesn't use his full might, possibly going One-Winged Angel in the process.

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Anime and Manga

In 666 Satan, Zenom, leader of the Zenom Syndicate, fights without getting up from his throne during the final confrontation with the heroes.

Video Games

Kingdom Hearts II: Xemnas, the Big Bad of II, does this during his Final Boss fight. After Sora and Riku have achieved taking down his battleship, Xemnas fights them in the cockpit of said battleship. During this part of the fight, he dons a Keyblade armor and then proceeds to fight the player without rising from his throne during the whole phase.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep The Bonus Boss No Heart, the keyblade armor worn by Xemnas in II, begins the fight like this, seemingly like Xemnas; finally subverted, as No Heart rapidly gets up and fights normally.

In Final Fantasy XV, Ifrit's boss fight starts with a phase where the Infernian just sits down on his throne, occasionnaly launching an attack or grabbing the player. Subverted for Ifrit does get up for the next phases of the fight.

In Devil May Cry 5, the first battles with Urizen are like this. He's sitting on his throne, and he's incapable of taking damage unless you destroy the crystal he is using to create his barriers, and he's blasting you with all manner of energy blasts. As you can guess, the first major battles like this are meant to be a Hopeless Boss Fight. He only actually gets up off his throne after Nero lands a hit on him during their rematch and pisses him off royally.

In Mega Man ZX Advent : the Final Boss, in his lair, is first seen sitting on a large throne. After the cutscene, then the throne transforms into a huge 3-headed robotic dragon with him still inside it; the dragon's body (and its weak point) doesn't move, and you just have to hammer on it while dodging the dragon heads' attacks until it's destroyed. Upon its destruction, the boss starts fighting for real.

In Touhou Tenkuushou ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons, the Final Boss Okina Matara fights by sitting on her throne the whole time, because she knows the fight is a Hopeless Boss Fight (story-wise, the player still needs to beat her). In the Bonus Level, she returns as the Bonus Boss, and knowing the player characters now stand a chance against her, stands up from her thrown to fight with her full power.

Sometimes this sets up a Zero Effort Boss where you just walk to them and kill them, mission complete. Sometimes it's a Trick Boss where it looks like it'd be a Zero Effort Boss, but then something happens and the real, proper fight starts. Sometimes the boss summons flunkies or attack with magic or other ranged attacks.

But one question from me: what about examples where the boss sits on a floating chair (which may be weaponized too)?

If the chair is floating, the trope still applies, I guess... I have not come across that case. The trope applies when the boss is sitting in a chair or throne of whichever kind and does not get up from it for the fight or part of the fight.

The first battles with Urizen in Devil May Cry 5 are like this. He's sitting on his throne, and he's incapable of taking damage unless you destroy the crystal he is using to create his barriers, and he's blasting you with all manner of Energy Blasts. As you can guess, the first major battles like this are meant to be Hopeless Boss Fights. He only actually gets up off his throne after Nero lands a hit on him during their rematch and pisses him off royally.

After thinking about it, I think that the floating chair boss is a completely different trope; the Will You Get Up From There Boss is passively sitting down on his seat without moving;in other words, neither he or the throne is mobile during at least part of the Boss Battle. Is the Boss in Azure Striker Gunvolt immobile at the beginning of the fight for example, or does he move about the whole time ?

Castlevania Symphony Of The Night: The final boss battle against Dracula. Instead of Dracula assuming some demonic form, he takes control of a demonic engine with which he attacks Alucard, which he controls from the comfort of his throne in the center.

Mega Man ZX Advent: the Final Boss, in his lair, is first seen sitting on a large throne. After the cutscene, then the throne transforms into a huge 3-headed robotic dragon with him still inside it; the dragon's body (and its weak point) doesn't move, and you just have to hammer on it while dodging the dragon heads' attacks until it's destroyed. Upon its destruction, the boss starts fighting for real.

In The Silmarillion, an Elf-lord comes to the gates of Thangorodrim to demand single combat with the Dark Lord Morgoth. Morgoth is strangely reluctant to leave the security of his throne-room and has to be prompted, several times, to get up, don armour, then go forth and fight. The text makes it clear that Morgoth does this only with the very greatest of reluctance.

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